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Papers

(The median citation count of Sociological Methods & Research is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Sample Selection Matters: Moving Toward Empirically Sound Qualitative Research	236
Linear Probability Model Revisited: Why It Works and How It Should Be Specified	123
Elucidating the Social – Developing Social Process Tracing as an Integrative Framework	59
Handle with Care: A Sociologist’s Guide to Causal Inference with Instrumental Variables	49
Method Bias Mechanisms and Procedural Remedies	49
Large Language Models for Text Classification: From Zero-Shot Learning to Instruction-Tuning	43
From Strange to Normal: Computational Approaches to Examining Immigrant Incorporation Through Shifts in the Mainstream	39
From Text Signals to Simulations: A Review and Complement to Text as Data by Grimmer, Roberts & Stewart (PUP 2022)	36
Fieldwork Disrupted: How Researchers Adapt to Losing Access to Field Sites	27
A Sample Size Formula for Network Scale-up Studies	26
The Mixed Subjects Design: Treating Large Language Models as Potentially Informative Observations	26
Examining Variation in Survey Costs Across Surveys	17
The Integration of Bayesian Regression Analysis and Bayesian Process Tracing in Mixed-Methods Research	17
Is There a Mobility Effect? On Methodological Issues in the Mobility Contrast Model	15
Inequality of Opportunity, Income Mobility, and the Interpretation of Intergenerational Elasticities, Correlations, and Rank-Rank Slopes	15
Social Mobility as Causal Intervention	14
From Codebooks to Promptbooks: Extracting Information from Text with Generative Large Language Models	14
Lagged Dependent Variable Predictors, Classical Measurement Error, and Path Dependency: The Conditions Under Which Various Estimators are Appropriate	13
The Rise in Occupational Coding Mismatches and Occupational Mobility, 1991–2020	13
Machine Learning as a Model for Cultural Learning: Teaching an Algorithm What it Means to be Fat	12
Generative Multimodal Models for Social Science: An Application with Satellite and Streetscape Imagery	12
Data Imbalances in Coincidence Analysis: A Simulation Study	11
In Search of a Comparable Measure of Generalized Individual Religiosity in the World Values Survey	11
Self-protecting responses in randomized response designs: A survey on intimate partner violence during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic	11
Networks Beyond Categories: A Computational Approach to Examining Gender Homophily	11

Methodological Frontiers in Intergenerational Mobility Research	10
The Sociological Power of Methodological Rhetoric	10
Biased Processing and Opinion Polarization: Experimental Refinement of Argument Communication Theory in the Context of the Energy Debate	10
Occupational Percentile Rank: A New Method for Constructing a Socioeconomic Index of Occupational Status	9
Life-Course-Sensitive Analysis of Group Inequalities: Combining Sequence Analysis With the Kitagawa–Oaxaca–Blinder Decomposition	9
3D Social Research: Analysis of Social Interaction Using Computer Vision	9
Iteration in Mixed-Methods Research Designs Combining Experiments and Fieldwork^,	9
Who Does What to Whom? Making Text Parsers Work for Sociological Inquiry	8
Simulating Subjects: The Promise and Peril of Artificial Intelligence Stand-Ins for Social Agents and Interactions	8
A Joint Model for Longitudinal and Time-to-event Data in Social and Life Course Research: Employment Status and Time to Retirement	8
Analyzing factorial survey data with structural equation models	8
Quantifying Narrative Similarity Across Languages	8
What Good is Qualitative Literacy Without Data Transparency?	7
Curating Training Data for Reliable Large-Scale Visual Data Analysis: Lessons from Identifying Trash in Street View Imagery	7
Theoretical Foundations and Limits of Word Embeddings: What Types of Meaning can They Capture?	7
Geographic Variation in Multigenerational Mobility	6
Assessing the Impact of the Great Recession on the Transition to Adulthood	6
Using Inverse Probability Weighting to Address Post-Outcome Collider Bias	6
Generalized Intergenerational Mobility Regressions	6
When to Use Counterfactuals in Causal Historiography: Methods for Semantics and Inference	6
Improving Cross-Cultural Comparability of Measures on Gender and Age Stereotypes by Means of Piloting Methods	6
Estimation and sensitivity analysis for causal decomposition in health disparity research	5
Path Analysis for Binary Random Variables	5
Correcting the Measurement Errors of AI-Assisted Labeling in Image Analysis Using Design-Based Supervised Learning	5
A Tool Kit for Relation Induction in Text Analysis	5
A Method for Estimating Individual Socioeconomic Status of Twitter Users	4
Measuring Class Hierarchies in Postindustrial Societies: A Criterion and Construct Validation of EGP and ESEC Across 31 Countries	4
Current and Future Debates in Video Data Analysis	4
Promise Into Practice: Application of Computer Vision in Empirical Research on Social Distancing	4
An Optimal Stratification Method for Addressing Nonresponse Bias in Bayesian Adaptive Survey Design	4
Do Quantitative and Qualitative Research Reflect two Distinct Cultures? An Empirical Analysis of 180 Articles Suggests “no”	4
Age, Period, and Cohort Analysis With Bounding and Interactions	4
Against the Mainstream: On the Limitations of Non-Invariance Diagnostics: Response to Fischer et al. and Meuleman et al.	4
Social Encounters and the Worlds Beyond: Putting Situationalism to Work for Qualitative Interviews	4
Locating Cultural Holes Brokers in Diffusion Dynamics Across Bright Symbolic Boundaries	4
Visual Design and Cognition in List-Style Open-Ended Questions in Web Probing	4
Social Rigidity Across and Within Generations: A Predictive Approach	4
Sequential On-Device Multitasking within Online Surveys: A Data Quality and Response Behavior Perspective	3
The Unrealized Potential of Audits: Applicant-Side Inequalities in Effort, Opportunities, and Certainty	3
The Augmented Social Scientist: Using Sequential Transfer Learning to Annotate Millions of Texts with Human-Level Accuracy	3
Graphical Causal Models for Survey Inference	3
A Bayesian Semi-Parametric Approach for Modeling Memory Decay in Dynamic Social Networks	3
The Insight-Inference Loop: Efficient Text Classification via Natural Language Inference and Threshold-Tuning	3
Untapped Potential: Designed Digital Trace Data in Online Survey Experiments	3
Deceptively Approachable: Translating Standards in Qualitative Research	3
Absolute and Relative Mobility: Two Frameworks for Connecting Intergenerational Mobility in Absolute and Relative Terms	3
Deep Learning With DAGs	3
Addressing Missingness in Serialized Bureaucratic Data: The Case of Chinese Courts	3
Comparing Egocentric and Sociocentric Centrality Measures in Directed Networks	2
From Ends to Means: The Promise of Computational Text Analysis for Theoretically Driven Sociological Research	2

Moving Beyond Linear Regression: Implementing and Interpreting Quantile Regression Models With Fixed Effects	2
The Impact of Survey Mode Design and Questionnaire Length on Measurement Quality	2
Improving Fairness in Criminal Justice Algorithmic Risk Assessments Using Optimal Transport and Conformal Prediction Sets	2
The Additional Effects of Adaptive Survey Design Beyond Post-Survey Adjustment: An Experimental Evaluation	2
A Robustness Test Protocol for Applied QCA: Theory and R Software Application	2
Abductive Coding: Theory Building and Qualitative (Re)Analysis	2
Cognitive Plausibility and Qualitative Research	2
Integrating Generative Artificial Intelligence into Social Science Research: Measurement, Prompting, and Simulation	2
Machine Bias. How Do Generative Language Models Answer Opinion Polls?	2
Comparing Methods for Estimating Demographics in Racially Polarized Voting Analyses	2
Measuring the Nature of Individual Sequences	2
Politics as Usual? Measuring Populism, Nationalism, and Authoritarianism in U.S. Presidential Campaigns (1952–2020) with Neural Language Models	2
The Extended Computational Case Method: A Framework for Research Design	2
Conceptualizing Job and Employment Concepts for Earnings Inequality Estimands With Linked Employer-Employee Data ¹	2
A Rolling Panel Model of Cohort, Period, and Aging Effects for the Analysis of the General Social Survey	2
Estimating Causal Effects of Multi-Valued Treatments Accounting for Network Interference: Immigration Policies and Crime Rates	2
The Design and Optimality of Survey Counts: A Unified Framework Via the Fisher Information Maximizer	2
High-Dimensional Imputation for the Social Sciences: A Comparison of State-of-The-Art Methods	2